Main entry:

Christian, Kathleen (Kathleen Wren), 1971-

Title & Author:

Empire without end : antiquities collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527 / Kathleen Wren Christian.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

ix, 440 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-423) and index.
Antiquity as example: Rome in the era of Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo -- The poetics of the collection: Cardinal Prospero Colonna's "Gardens of Maecenas" -- Fictive genealogies and ancestral collections in fifteenth-century Rome -- The virtues of the papal collector: Paul II and Sixtus IV -- Pomponio Leto and the academic garden -- The era of collecting, 1480-1527 -- Epilogue: the Sack of Rome -- Catalogue of the collections in Roman houses and Vigne before 1527.

Summary:

In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displayed in private collections. Many of these collections, especially the Vatican Belvedere, are well known to art historians and archaeologists. Yet discussions of antiquities collecting in Rome too often begin with the Belvedere, that is, only after it was a widespread practice. In this important book, the author steps back to examine the "long" fifteenth century, a critical period in the history of antiquities collecting that has received scant attention. Kathleen Wren Christian examines shifts in the response of artists and writers to spectacular archaeological discoveries and the new role of collecting antiquities in the public life of Roman elites.

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ISBN:

9780300154214 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300154216 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Bibel Römerbrief
Art, Roman Collectors and collecting Italy Rome.
Classical antiquities Collectors and collecting Italy Rome.
Art romain Collectionneurs et collections Italie Rome.
Antiquités gréco-romaines Collectionneurs et collections Italie Rome.
20.11 art collecting.
Art and Design.
Antiquities.
Civilization.
Classical antiquities Collectors and collecting.
Antikensammlung
Funde
Kunst
Kunstsammler
Römerzeit
Sculptures.
Private collections.
Sammler.
Rome (Italy) Antiquities.
Rome (Italy) Civilization.
Rome (Italie) Antiquités.
Rome (Italie) Civilisation.
Italy Rome.
Rome.
Rom.
1350-1527

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268641
Call No.: BIB 200484
Status: Available